TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence of a Relationship Between Mental Rotation Skills and Performance in a 3D Puzzle Game
AU - VanMeerten, Nicolaas
AU - Varma, Keisha
AU - Gravelle, Matthew
AU - Miller, Nickolas
AU - Kraikul, Evva
AU - Fatemi, Farzan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work could not have been completed without the support of the school, teachers, and students who participated in this research.
PY - 2019/8/28
Y1 - 2019/8/28
N2 - Spatial reasoning is an ability that people utilize on a daily basis, that has also been linked to performance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. However, there are very few widely available opportunities to train spatial reasoning skills that have been proven to be effective tools. As a first step in the validation process, this study sought to establish whether performance on a measure of intrinsic and dynamic spatial reasoning ability was related to performance within Optica, a mobile puzzle game. To investigate this relationship, 168 middle school students participated in a within-subjects study over three days. The results of this study have been promising, as our analysis indicated that there was a significant relationship between the number of levels completed in Optica and score on the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test—Revised: Visualization of Rotations (Revised PSVT: R).
AB - Spatial reasoning is an ability that people utilize on a daily basis, that has also been linked to performance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. However, there are very few widely available opportunities to train spatial reasoning skills that have been proven to be effective tools. As a first step in the validation process, this study sought to establish whether performance on a measure of intrinsic and dynamic spatial reasoning ability was related to performance within Optica, a mobile puzzle game. To investigate this relationship, 168 middle school students participated in a within-subjects study over three days. The results of this study have been promising, as our analysis indicated that there was a significant relationship between the number of levels completed in Optica and score on the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test—Revised: Visualization of Rotations (Revised PSVT: R).
KW - STEM
KW - game
KW - spatial reasoning
KW - training
KW - video game
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U2 - 10.3389/feduc.2019.00082
DO - 10.3389/feduc.2019.00082
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85092066521
SN - 2504-284X
VL - 4
JO - Frontiers in Education
JF - Frontiers in Education
M1 - 82
ER -